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Show VOLUNTEER ARMY TAKING INVENTORY WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. A volunteer volun-teer army made up of 10.000 American housewives, three hundred and fifty thousand merchants and thirty-five thousand farmers, Is today engaged in taking an Inventory of the nation's food supplies. They are taking slock of the food they have on hand, in the pantry and preserve closet, on the shelves and under the counter, in warehouse and grain elevator and in barns and bins on the farm. As soon as the returns from today's inventory are complete they will be forwarded to Washington for tabulation tabula-tion and the results will be made known later. ' nr |